HERTFORDSHIRE.
Inquisition.
Hertford.
25 October 1442. [
Thornbury].
Jurors:
John
Sharp
;
Nicholas
Odelston
;
William
Fauconer
;
James
Lightfote
;
Robert
Shelforde
;
John
Bautre
;
William
Knyght
;
Nicholas
Dukworth
;
Robert
Populwell
;
William
Lyghtwode
;
Robert
Jameson
; and
William
...onde [ms torn, one letter missing].
She held no lands, tenements, rents, or services of the king in demesne or in service. But she held the following in demesne as of fee.
Puckeridge, a messuage in the parish of Braughing, situated between the tenement of
John
Quye
to the north, and the tenement of
Thomas
Baude
and the curtilage once of
John
Wenge
to the south, annual value 10s. One moiety of the messuage is held of
Thomas
Baude
, of his manor of Mentley, by service of 28d. yearly. The other
moiety is parcel of
Penyferthyngesacr’
and pays 5s. yearly to the chapel of
Puckeridge.
Standon, 5½ a. land in the field called ‘Heyghfeld’, each acre worth 2d. yearly, held
of
Richard, duke of York
, of his manor of Plashes, by service of 16d. yearly.
Standon, a messuage, worth 4d. yearly, and 30 a. land, each acre worth 4d. yearly, in the field called ‘Dellefeld’; ½ a. land in ‘Efeld’, worth 1d. yearly; and two half-acres
of meadow, one in ‘Longmed’ and one in ‘Brademed’, worth 2s. yearly, held of the same duke, of his manor of Standon, as 1/19 knight’s fee. At the time of Margaret’s death this manor was in the king’s hands because of the death of
Edmund, late earl
of March
, and the minority of the current duke [of York], his kinsman and heir. From the time of her death until 27 March 1429 the issues of the messuage, land, and meadow were taken by
John
Roys
of London, ‘gentilman’, how or by what title the jurors do not know.
From 27 March 1429 until the taking of this inquisition the issues were taken by
Thomas
Tudenham, knight
, and
Thomas
Hoo, esquire
, by virtue of royal letters patent dated 15 November 1432 [CFR 1430–7, p. 121], on the mainprize of
Edmund
Wychynham
and
John
Elmham
.
She died on 31 December 1426.
Richard
Waldern
is her son and next heir, aged 30 and more.